Placer County Supervisors showed little regard for what residents of the Tahoe Basin want in a development by approving a 760-unit Martis Valley West project in October. A lawsuit soon followed. They are now expected to kowtow to current Squaw owner KSL’s mid-20th century mountain-town-as-airport-Hilton vision for Olympic Valley 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 in Kings Beach. How it...

Nike, once a counter culture brand, and Oregon, once a counterculture school, need to go back to their roots in radicalism to be relevant again.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Over the past two decades I’ve marveled at how the culture of Oregon football has morphed to become the opposite of Eugene and the namesake state. The University of Oregon, in...

I try and I try and I try...but I can’t seem to understand the point of rooting for the present-day 49ers unless you have that disease Drew Barrymore had in 50 First Dates where you maybe got knocked out sometime in the early ‘90s and every day you wake up thinking the team is great while at the same...

You could argue that San Diego will be just fine without the NFL. We’ve done that. Now we’re gonna do it again.
Written by Kyle Magin
“Do we want to be a world-class city, or just a small town?” - Fred Maas, San Diego Chargers Special Adviser.
Maas, a wealthy Republican consultant and San Diego developer, utters that sentence at the...

And you get a drone and you get a drone and you get a drone.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
GoPro, the company started by the son of the founder of Silicon Valley investment bank Roberston Stephens, is about to be worth as much as the waterproof casing you bought for your 2011 GoPro model which you thought you were going to...

...At least I’ll try not to. Promise. Maybe.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
I recently mentioned how much I look forward to rely on POWDER's annual buyers' guide/kick-off issue dropping into my mailbox of floating as if by magic carrier owl onto a news stand. I like everything about it. It is one part guilty pleasure, one part aspirational guide to living...

...We are all guilty I suppose.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
We peeps do a really good job of really fucking up priorities on a regular basis.
Owe three months rent? I’ll just put that jacket on the card….and maybe some T-bell. Hello Crunchy Cheesy Core Burrito™.
Building’s burning down? Where the fuck is my phone? (Have you seen my fucking phone?)
Can we sit...

It’s weird to see schlubby mic jockeys and ink-stained wretches stumping for a billionaire.
Written by Kyle Magin
San Diego’s sports media despises the city’s taxpayers and tourists.
In an all-out effort to save their jobs as it relates to year-round coverage of the San Diego Chargers, the city’s radio, TV, and *some* print media have gone into the tank--a tank filled...

Attempting to solve skiing's toughest question: How can I enjoy the sport when it’s the end times?
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Several years ago, I was alone trolling around Deer Valley’s Empire Canyon on a Tuesday morning. The night before had delivered eight inches of new snow and by 10 a.m. the clouds had parted to let in some rare,...

...But the best part is Tahoe only gets its nonprofit AFTER the reason for NEEDING a nonprofit is built.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Here comes the supposed nonprofit arm of the private equity firm hellbent on turning Olympic Valley into the Four Points Sheraton near the MacArthur Maze.
Squaw announced Tuesday that they’ve launched a boy band version of a 501(c)(3)...